The largest internet dating portal for adults, Adult Friend Finder, has once again been the focus of a cyberattack as it happened in 2015, where they were almost stolen 4 millions of accounts.
This time the damage has been greater, since between the social network for adults and its subsidiaries, the leak amounts to more than 400 millions of accounts. This data theft is one of the largest in cyber history, only surpassed by the data theft it suffered Yahoo!
Worst of all, the company was on notice, since an anonymous researcher discovered the security breach in mid-October and sent them documents demonstrating the hole discovered, but there was no action on his part.
However, the situation goes further. Early research has shown that the vast majority of passwords can be read very easily, without using any encryption. If we take into account that most people use the same password for several services (something that from Intec we advise you against doing so), data leakage has a higher severity.